[quote]But what exactly is a law of nature? Hawking and Mlodinow characterize a law as “a rule that is based upon an observed regularity and provides predictions that go beyon
This is going to be a sort of rambling account, maybe it's more like a note for my own reference than anything else.
It's funny, sometimes I've tried meditation in order to reach a different state of being. However today when I wasn't intending anything at all I found a sudden unexpected shift.
So last night, or this morning rather, I had a very involved dream. Part of it had me suddenly in front of a artificial intelligence booth, with a robot android being inside, asking me to insert my driver's license. First I put in some parking stub by mistake. Then I actually put the license card in
The Pentagon just announced that recently a Reaper drone in the Middle East recorded the image of a flying shiny reflective metallic sphere UFO. According to the article there have been a number of other such observations recorded from drones. There has been no conclusion yet about what these object
The title of this thread was inspired by the unsuccessful search for the hypothesized "supersymmetry particles" at the LHC at CERN over the past decade.
Since then, I have become increasingly skeptical of some of the most significant "extrapolations" in physical science, including the Big Bang th
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